Discussion: Really?

My nomenclature is likely inconsistent, but I'm referring to spare opportunities where I knocked down 9 pins on the first ball. These are my favorite shots, because it is a very simple, elegant test of skill - either you get the ball within the appropriate angle to hit the pin or you do not.

The BoD of CSU Bowling is considering two new events for future competitions:

- Bowling relay: teams of at most 3 for each club compete in tenpin. The team score for each frame is the best score from among the team members in that frame.

- Limbo bowling: an individual event; the goal is to minimize your score. Gutter balls count as ten, marks are scored in the usual way. A perfect game consists of knocking over a single pin with every ball, i.e. 20. This is mostly because I think it would be funny for people to be genuinely upset when they bowl a strike.

How so? Gutters count as 10, so 20 gutters would be a score of 200. Maybe we should call it bowling golf?

Ah, I see. I suppose I should qualify my statement to define any outcome (including a foot fault) in which the number of pins knocked down is 0 yields a score of 10. The mechanic is similar to what you suggest. I should note that even I have never played such a game (limbo-bowling? Bowling golf? Reverse bowling?).